“It’s a long forgotten fact that the very first ANZAC parade was organised by unions in Adelaide 0n 13 October 1915.The Adelaide trades and labour council decided to use their traditional Labour Day event in support of returned veterans and to raise money for the wounded.While the union movement backed the Diggers who went off to war, it was also unions that led the anti-conscription campaigns in 1916 and 1917.”

“It’s a long forgotten fact that the very first ANZAC parade was organised by unions in Adelaide 0n 13 October 1915.The Adelaide trades and labour council decided to use their traditional Labour Day event in support of returned veterans and to raise money for the wounded.While the union movement backed the Diggers who went off to war, it was also unions that led the anti-conscription campaigns in 1916 and 1917.”

But what is at the heart of McIntyre’s firing is the real religion of the supposedly “secular West”: mandated worship not just of its military but of its wars. The central dogma of this religion is tribal superiority: Our Side is more civilized, more peaceful, superior to Their Side.

McIntyre was fired because he committed blasphemy against that religion………………..That’s why Scott McIntyre was fired: because he questioned and disputed the most sacred doctrine of the West’s religion. In a free, healthy and pluralistic society, doing so would be the defining attribute of a journalist, the highest aim. But in societies that, above all else, demand unyielding tribal loyalty and subservient adherence to orthodoxies, it’s viewed as an egregious breach of journalism and gets you fired

SBS soccer reports Scott McIntyre tweeted using his SBS account 2 tweets critical of the Anzac mythology and the orgy of war glorification on the centenary Anzac Day. He tweeted facts, maybe he should not have used his SBS account?

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Scott McIntyreVerified account‏@mcintinhosThe cultification of an imperialist invasion of a foreign nation that Australia had no quarrel with is against all ideals of modern society.

Can't find quickly where we were talking about Anzac biscuits. I made a post that the biscuits the blokes received at Gallipole were hard as nails, and that was based on some ABC radio programme I had just heard.

“It’s a long forgotten fact that the very first ANZAC parade was organised by unions in Adelaide 0n 13 October 1915.The Adelaide trades and labour council decided to use their traditional Labour Day event in support of returned veterans and to raise money for the wounded.While the union movement backed the Diggers who went off to war, it was also unions that led the anti-conscription campaigns in 1916 and 1917.”ead more of this fascinating history by Neale Towart on Working Life today. | http://bit.ly/1Ei7UM2

Another fact the focus on. Our obsession with Gallipoli ignores the disastrous acquiescence of the Australian Gov't to British military priorities which cared nothing about knowingly leading Australian troops to their certain deaths.The birth of a nation? If blindly sucking up to Mother England could be called the birth of a nation maybe. Like Paul Keating, I suggest if we must focus on a single military action on Anzac day it should be the Kokoda Track (Trail to the Yanks),

Or focus on the Battle of Hamel: Australian soldiers under Australian command using sensible tactics drove the Germans back 200Km and took thousands of German prisoners who had had enough of war. Ludendorff called it “the blackest day in the German Army history.”